From: davida@pobox.com (David Arnold)
Subject: [TUHS] Storage costs (was: Re: Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes')
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:29:14 +1100 [thread overview]
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The Quantum Lightning 730MB drives were the tipping point for me — likely around 1994/1995? They were readily available for just under AUD1/MB for the 50-pin narrow SCSI-2 version. I bought heaps of them, and still have maybe half a dozen spinning today.
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> On 25 Nov 2017, at 07:18, Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
> I remember in 1990 we got our first 1Gig drive, I paid $1000 for it. ($1/MB).
> One of the sales guys I worked with had a unit of storage called the “Costco Terabyte.” How much one terabyte of storage costs at Costco.
> When we started tracking it, it was around $5000. It was down about $40 last I checked.
> <>
> From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Henry Bent
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2017 1:17 PM
> To: Nelson H. F. Beebe
> Cc: TUHS main list
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes'
>
> On 24 November 2017 at 13:06, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu <mailto:beebe at math.utah.edu>> wrote:
>> P.S. In 1990, we filled a dumpster with 9-track tapes that we had to
>> abandon because of our move to new hardware that lacked such a drive,
>> and because our new disk system had insufficent disk space to preserve
>> their contents.
>>
>> I have since regretted that decision many times, because a lot of
>> stuff was lost forever.
>>
>> The maximum capacity of 6250-bpi 9-track tapes was about 100MB to
>> 170MB. A thousand such tapes would have needed just 100GB to 170GB,
>> an amount of space that I can now buy in Utah for about US$4 (based on
>> a local store offering of $94 for a 4TB USB-3 attached disk about the
>> size of a paperback thriller).
>
> Sure, but how much would 170GB of storage have cost in 1990? And what would have been the cost to mirror it, or to back it up on to a more modern tape format? Was that data really worth tens of thousands of dollars?
>
> -Henry
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-24 15:05 [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes' Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-11-24 17:01 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-24 18:06 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-11-24 18:17 ` Henry Bent
2017-11-24 20:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-25 0:29 ` David Arnold [this message]
2017-11-25 0:57 ` [TUHS] Storage costs (was: Re: Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes') Steve Simon
2017-11-24 22:46 ` [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes' Dave Horsfall
2017-11-24 22:57 ` Arthur Krewat
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